France Quotes

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

There is no hell, there's only France

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.